![]() You'll end up with a VirtualBox icon in your Applications folder. When the download is done, mount the disk image and follow the simple installation instructions. ![]() Choose the link for Intel Macs (sorry, it doesn't run on those old PowerPC Macs), and click the download link. To get a free copy of Sun's excellent VirtualBox VM environment, point your browser to. In this short how-to post, I'll demonstrate how I installed Ubuntu Linux 9.04, also known as "Jaunty Jackalope." While you can create a bootable partition on your Mac and boot Linux from it, I prefer to do things the lazy way. Why would you want to run Linux on a Mac? There are probably a few good reasons - learning about a different OS, using software that's not available on the Mac platform, or for a Linux class in school. Not only can you install Linux distributions on a Mac using VirtualBox, but it's extremely easy to do. ![]() How about Linux?," which set up a challenge. The tweet asked, "You did a post about installing Win 7 on the Mac for free. I received a private tweet from a reader the other day, who asked a question about a previous post in which I had installed Windows 7 RC1 on a Mac using Sun's VirtualBox.
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